Just as I was about to graduate from my doctoral program, I attended my first big girl conference. It was three days long at a hotel in… Read more “Connecting to Your Parts – Internal Family Systems Therapy”

Therapy is a magical place where freedom of expression is encouraged, all parts of you are validated, and healing on all levels comes to fruition. It’s also… Read more “How to Resolve any Situation… Change, leave, or accept”

“I don’t know if I’m extremely sensitive or life is unbearable.” – Vincent Van Gogh There are times in life when to be present simply feels unbearable.… Read more “Cheers to Healthy Dissociation”

On Tuesday morning, as I laid on my acupuncturists table, a bubbling of sadness began to well up within me and salt water poured from eyes and… Read more “Fear Trumps Hope”

As a born and bred Bay Arean, tattoos are something that I’ve culturally grown up with my entire life. It wasn’t surprising that as a teenager, I… Read more “Erasing the Permanent – My spiritual experiences with tattoo removal”